Published March 7, 2020
| Version 1.0
Dataset
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Annual 30-meter Dataset for Glacial Lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017
Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2. Department of Geography, University of Zurich
- 3. The Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
- 4. Department of Geology, University of Dayton
- 5. Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
Description
We developed a High Mountain Asia (HMA) Glacial Lake Inventory (Hi-MAG) database to characterize the annual coverage of glacial lakes from 2008 to 2017 at 30 m resolution. This is the first glacier lake inventory across the HMA providing details for size and type of glacial lakes at high spatial resolution, and the first with annual temporal resolution. Although the method of lake mapping was automatic, for quality control every lake polygon was inspected and was manually edited where needed. It can be used for studies on glacier-climate-lake interactions, glacio-hydrologic models, glacial lake outburst floods and potential downstream risks and water resources.
Notes
The creation of this data set was funded by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA19030101), the International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (131C11KYSB20160061/131211KYSB20170046), and the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFE0100800).
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Hi-MAG database.zip
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